Dave Plowman (News) wrote
Tim Watts wrote

Not much point in being in a free trade area if you don't want to
export.

You've made a flexible statement into a very binary one.

Why would you not want to pick and choose - and direct
your best exports to the EU, whilst not being burdened
with regulations concerning exports that are a minority.

I'm trying to think of anything that would be made
for the UK only, with no eye on possibly exporting it.

Can you?

Yep, haggis, pies with peas, battered fried mars bars etc etc etc.

Especially with things like cars.

With those many have more than one config for particular markets.

A very large emerging market might well
make a product that couldn't be exported.
Like a tuk-tuk, etc. But not the UK.

Wrong, most obviously with those
stupid taxis and double decker buses.

Rather the same as all consumer goods. We
already make those to EU regs - like it or not.

Britain exports plenty of stuff to the rest of
the world that doesn’t comply with EU regs.

So why do a re-design for the
UK only to a lower standard?

Having fun thrashing yet another straw man ?